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Monday, December 1, 2014

WHY I AM OPPOSED TO PLANNED PARENTHOOD

There are scientific reasons
why mankind has become hypersexual.
Better healthcare and nutrition means people becoming more sexually
active earlier.Animals even those as advanced
as human beings will always have the urge to procreate more often and continue
the species if the conditions are right.

But culture has a lot to do
with it too and by this I’m primarily talking about America.

Teenagers in America are
bombarded with sexual images from now lesser offenders television and
advertising to the porn of the Internet.
The exposure to the latter depends on the supervision of parents but
that’s increasingly harder in this online society.

I should say before I
continue that I support sex education in the schools. The correct biological information should be
given to everyone but it should be removed from advocacy. Just as abstinence based education has shown
to be a complete failure and there is no place for religious dogma in public
schools much less sexual education classes , the same is true about encouraging
teenagers to have sex.

No one is doing that you say?

Allow me to tell you a story
about Planned Parenthood. When I was a
teenager I had a female friend who viewed me as a confidant. She was quite attractive and dated a lot and
revealed to me that she had recently consulted Planned Parenthood as she was
considering beginning a sexual relationship with her boyfriend. Like a lot of teenagers, she did not have
strong beliefs on this matter other than a general fear of sex as something
unknown and/or something frowned upon by society.

What she told me was Planned
Parenthood had not only provided her with all sorts of birth control but had told
her that sex was natural and something she should do.

It seems wrong to me that an
outside organization like Planned Parenthood should be allowed to give
advice like that to underage children. This is not about abortion. I am pro choice basically and I am aware that
abortion is a relatively small part of what Planned Parenthood does. I am more concerned with this.

If I had a son or a daughter,
they would hopefully in an ideal world come to me if they had questions on
sexual matters. I would not shame them
but my counsel would be to put off sex at least until they were done with
school and in their 20’s. That may seem
terribly old fashioned but studies have shown that those who have sex at an
earlier age are more likely to be promiscuous and less stable in their future
romantic relationships. Most teenagers are not mentally capable of properly
processing a sexual relationship which is why divorce and rape and a whole host
of other ills related to the interaction between the sexes are rampant in the
West.

You see Planned Parenthood
was started by Margret Sanger whose goal (an admirable one) was to provide
birth control to poor women. She is a
villain for conservatives who point at her affiliation with the Klu Klux Klan
and belief in eugenics and keeping the population of African Americans and
immigrants down as well as sterilization and abortion. Sanger also believed in open marriage and was
a bit open sexually even by today’s standards.

That’s all well and good but
today’s problem is not so much sexual repression but the opposite – kids
exposed to too much too soon. The
internet makes porn part of every kid’s rite of passage (which is not healthy)
and in every way kids are encouraged to dress and act like adults.

In the end, adults should
make their own decisions about sex, when to have it, who to have it with but
young people especially are prone to pressure in this way and the need adults they feel comfortable talking
to. Families are best or professionals
(counsellors) who deal with children but not outside organizations trying to
foist their perverse values on people.

Planned Parenthood feeds the immoral decadence of Western culture, a dying corrupt empire.